Brazil is among the four top teams of the Pan Am Challenge, after beating Puerto Rico 5-1, in the second sports day of Pool A of the Pan Am Challenge, and became the leader of the pool.
Guyana earned their first victory of the tournament ending 14-0 against Panama, and securing a second place so far.
For Brazil, the match was tough, as they faced a team with enormous resistance. The Brazilians were able to break them due to their highly efficient penalty corners. The match was definded with two goals by Stephane Vehrle-Smith, and one goal by Lucas Paixao, Patrick and Yuri Van der Heijden each. Puerto Rico’s Xavier Torres scored once.
Vehrle-Smith knows Brazil can do much better. “We were not able to play as we wanted because the pressure was high. Nevertheless, winning is important, and our purpose is winning this tournament”, he said.
“This has been a unique experience for us. We feel we played well, at some point of the match we played as equals, and I think, the result does not reflect our good performance today”, said Torres.
MORE GOALS
Guyana earned their first victory of the Pan Am Challenge. It was a match where Guyana could display all the strategies rehearsed for the occasion. Aroydy Brandford, scored 4 goals from the 14 goals of her team. Other scorers were Mark Sargeant, Jamarj Assanah, Robert France, Orlando Semple (two goals each), and Shane Samuels and Carl Xavier with one goal each.
TOMORROW THE POOL WILL BE DEFINED
With Brazil already in the semifinals, tomorrow the second team will be unveiled. Guyana, second, will be their next rival, at midday. Puerto Rico, earned 1 point after tying with Guyana, and they will have to defeat Panama (the match starts at 2 PM), to be able to cruise to the semifinals.
Tomorrow the second day of Pool B will take place. Peru will open the sports day playing against Ecuador at 8 AM., and later Venezuela and Uruguay will meet at 10 AM.
